[Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions?

[Dean Collins]

Hi Scott, everything thing you are looking to do is possible.

You might need to offer a bounty for someone if you don't feel
comfortable to do it yourself but checkout the call agi scripts.

Cheers,
Dean


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Nelson
> Sent: Saturday, 2 July 2005 4:05 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Asterisk Users
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions?
> 
> In the subdivision where I live, we have a well that time to time has
> problems.  Currently, our trustees call me, I take a message, and
> then call the people on our "phone calling tree" and give them the
> message.  They, in turn, pass the message on to the rest of the
> residents.
> 
> We have a few problems with the way this works -- people don't bother
> to relay the message, or, when they do relay the message, they get
> the message wrong.
> 
> I was thinking about using an Asterisk server -- kind of a "hot line"
> for our subdivision.  A trustee can call in and record an
> announcement, and the server would phone each resident and play the
> announcement to them.  At other times we can use the server to play
> "up and coming events" and so on.
> 
> Obviously, I need to create the menus and authenticate the trustees,
> record the message, and have that trigger an agi to create outbound
> dial files -- and some sort of cron or agi job to get statistics of
> who has acknowledged the message and who hasn't so that the trustee
> can phone the resident themselves.
> 
> I'm thinking about a small PC located at one of the trustees' house
> (or perhaps my own) with one phone line interface.  Alas, no high
> speed internet here so I can't use VOIP instead of a POTS phone line.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions/tips/cautions for me?  Are there any
> applications that might help me?  Should I create a program that
> makes the calls via the manager interface, etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott Nelson
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